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Old 02-27-2015, 11:37 AM   #1
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Download Metadata - Showing Only 1 Result

Hello, I'm using Calibre 2.20, and whenever I edit the metadata for a book and press the [Download metadata] button, I only get one result, if any.

It also seems that the search is very picky in regards to the title and author name. If I don't get that just right, the search will not return any results.

In the past it has seemed that the search was more relaxed and would return more results, and then you could pick the correct result.

Is there some configuration that has the search locked down tighter?

Thank you. -chris
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Old 03-01-2015, 07:44 AM   #2
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@chris_crawford - check Preferences->Metadata download, particularly the Max. time to wait settings, it maybe too short for 'prevailing' conditions. Also check to make sure the optional metadata download plugins you use are present and up to date.

If you can supply an ISBN you'll generally get better results, this optional PI will try to find an ISBN in the book files ==>> Extract ISBN

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Doesn't download, even with ISBN. Search dies immediately.

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@chris_crawford - check Preferences->Metadata download, particularly the Max. time to wait settings, it maybe too short for 'prevailing' conditions. Also check to make sure the optional metadata download plugins you use are present and up to date.

If you can supply an ISBN you'll generally get better results, this optional PI will try to find an ISBN in the book files ==>> Extract ISBN

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In my experience, from the moment I installed 2.20, I get zero results. . Failure is immediate. Going to try to regress back to the previous release, until I can download metadata.
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In my experience, from the moment I installed 2.20, I get zero results. . Failure is immediate. Going to try to regress back to the previous release, until I can download metadata.
No problem with metadata download in 2.20. Running Mint 17.1
Check your firewall and AV.
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Running identify query with parameters: 
{u'timeout': 30, u'title': u'Thraxas and the Ice Dragon', u'authors': [u'Martin Scott'], u'identifiers': {u'isbn': u'9781626752719'}} 
Using plugins: Goodreads, Barnes & Noble, Baen, Google, Amazon.com 
The log from individual plugins is below 

****************************** Amazon.com ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1')] 
Found 1 results 
Downloading from Amazon.com took 3.69942092896 


--- 
Title               : Thraxas and the Ice Dragon
Author(s)           : Martin Scott
Publisher           : BookBaby
Tags                : Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Languages           : eng
Rating              : 2.4
Published           : 2013-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers         : amazon:B00BOV3S9E
Comments            : <p>Thraxas and Makri drift ashore in the distant land of Samsarina, in the company of Lisutaris, Head of the Sorcerers Guild. After a miserable voyage on a leaky fishing boat, Thraxas just wants to drink beer, but there are other matters to attend to. Turai has fallen to the enemy, and the armies of the West are gathering. Before war breaks out, there's the great sword-fighting tournament, which gives Thraxas the chance of almost unlimited gambling, if only he can persuade Makri to enter. Makri is surprised to find herself looking after a baby dragon, and even more surprised to discover that Thraxas has a romantic past, one which leads them into a murder investigation in an unfamiliar land, where hostile forces oppose them at every turn. This is the ninth book in the Thraxas series.</p> 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Goodreads ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Found 1 results 
Downloading from Goodreads took 3.72160005569 


--- 
Title               : Thraxas and the Ice Dragon
Author(s)           : Martin Scott
Publisher           : BookBaby
Tags                : Fantasy
Series              : Thraxas #9
Rating              : 2.2
Published           : 2013-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers         : goodreads:21263599
Comments            : <p>Thraxas and Makri drift ashore in the distant land of Samsarina, in the company of Lisutaris, Head of the Sorcerers Guild. After a miserable voyage on a leaky fishing boat, Thraxas just wants to drink beer, but there are other matters to attend to. Turai has fallen to the enemy, and the armies of the West are gathering. Before war breaks out, there's the great sword-fighting tournament, which gives Thraxas the chance of almost unlimited gambling, if only he can persuade Makri to enter. Makri is surprised to find herself looking after a baby dragon, and even more surprised to discover that Thraxas has a romantic past, one which leads them into a murder investigation in an unfamiliar land, where hostile forces oppose them at every turn. This is the ninth book in the Thraxas series.</p> 
Querying: http://www.goodreads.com/search?search_type=books&search[query]=9781626752719
ISBN match location: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21263599-thraxas-and-the-ice-dragon'
Goodreads book url: u'http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21263599-thraxas-and-the-ice-dragon' 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Google ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Google took 0.738256931305 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Barnes & Noble ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5')] 
Found 1 results 
Downloading from Barnes & Noble took 2.51503205299 


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Title               : Thraxas and the Ice Dragon
Author(s)           : Martin Scott
Publisher           : BookBaby
Rating              : 2.5
Published           : 2013-02-27T00:00:00+00:00
Identifiers         : isbn:9781626752719, barnesnoble:w/thraxas-and-the-ice-dragon-martin-scott/1114849145
Comments            : <p>Thraxas and Makri drift ashore in the distant land of Samsarina, in the company of Lisutaris, Head of the Sorcerers Guild. After a miserable voyage on a leaky fishing boat, Thraxas just wants to drink beer, but there are other matters to attend to. Turai has fallen to the enemy, and the armies of the West are gathering. Before war breaks out, there's the great sword-fighting tournament, which gives Thraxas the chance of almost unlimited gambling, if only he can persuade Makri to enter. Makri is surprised to find herself looking after a baby dragon, and even more surprised to discover that Thraxas has a romantic past, one which leads them into a murder investigation in an unfamiliar land, where hostile forces oppose them at every turn. This is the ninth book in the Thraxas series. </p> 
Querying: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/books/product.aspx?EAN=9781626752719
ISBN match location: u'http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thraxas-and-the-ice-dragon-martin-scott/1114849145?ean=9781626752719'
B&N url: u'http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/thraxas-and-the-ice-dragon-martin-scott/1114849145?ean=9781626752719' 

******************************************************************************** 

****************************** Baen ****************************** 
Request extra headers: [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.63 Safari/534.3')] 
Found 0 results 
Downloading from Baen took 1.87639904022 
Querying: http://www.baenebooks.com/searchadv.aspx?SearchDescriptions=0&ShowPics=0&SearchTerm=Thraxas+and+the+Ice+Dragon
No matches found with query: u'http://www.baenebooks.com/searchadv.aspx?SearchDescriptions=0&ShowPics=0&SearchTerm=Thraxas+and+the+Ice+Dragon' 

******************************************************************************** 
The identify phase took 3.82 seconds 
The longest time (3.721600) was taken by: Goodreads 
Merging results from different sources and finding earliest  publication dates from the worldcat.org service 
We have 1 merged results, merging took: 0.57 seconds

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Old 03-01-2015, 10:45 AM   #5
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Question Get EOFError line 19 of _init_.py

Here is what I get when trying to download. Is this an indicator of firewall problem?
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 51, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\__init__.py", line 19, in eintr_retry_call
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Here is what I get when trying to download. Is this an indicator of firewall problem?
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 51, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\__init__.py", line 19, in eintr_retry_call
EOFError
What OS are you using?
Delete the downloaded install files and re-download them from http://calibre-ebook.com/download then reinstall.
Run calibre in debug mode and post the result.

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq....ing-on-windows
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Old 03-04-2015, 09:13 PM   #7
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That error indicates something on your computer, most likely your antivirus is preventing calibre worker processes from running.
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Old 03-05-2015, 02:35 PM   #8
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Hello everyone, Thanks for the suggestions. The problem ended up being related to my AV for some reason. When I turned off Microsoft Family Filter and Avast, the queries ran as expected.

The strange thing is, this did not seem to be an issue before upgrading to 2.20 like pcug mentioned.

Hopefully this info will help someone else. -chris

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@chris_crawford - Many (most) AV's update silently every day, some are notorious for changing white-lists, black-lists etc, also some Child Protection services have a setting that will block sites where money can be spent.

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Same problem 32 and 64 bit. Debug results.

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Here is what I get when trying to download. Is this an indicator of firewall problem?
Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\simple_worker.py", line 51, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\utils\ipc\__init__.py", line 19, in eintr_retry_call
EOFError
Uninstalled Calibre 32-bit 2.2.0, then installed Calibre 64-bit 2.23.
Ran Calibre in debug mode from Administrator command prompt.
Got a lot of Permission Denied errors for backup of metadata.

Code:
Failed to write backup metadata for id: 19860 again, giving up
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backup.py", line 108, in do_one
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 57, in call_func_with_lock
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\cache.py", line 1109, in write_backup
  File "site-packages\calibre\db\backend.py", line 1555, in write_backup
  File "site-packages\calibre\startup.py", line 168, in local_open
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied"
OS is Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard. I have Malware Bytes Premium 2.04.0128, Microsoft Firewall, and Microsoft is the only AV softare running on this server.

Get the same problems downloading metadata as with the 32-bit version.
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That indicates something on your computer is preventing calibre from communicating with its worker processes, most likely an antivirus.
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